Join Howdens as a Recruitment Coordinator and play a central role in keeping our trade recruitment process organised, accurate, and running at pace. We’re looking for someone highly organised and detail-focused to support our in‑house Recruitment Team at Croxley Green Business Park, Watford. This is a key role, where you’ll take ownership of the day‑to‑day coordination of recruitment activity, ensuring our service is well organised, accurate, and consistently moving forward. Using Workday, you’ll post vacancies, move candidates through the recruitment process, manage interview coordination and candidate communications, as well as arranging interviews and maintaining accurate data; you’ll be responsible for making sure every step runs smoothly and efficiently. You will also support our recruiters with non‑critical depot roles, applying the same structured, organised approach to keep vacancies moving and stakeholders informed. As a central point of support for our recruitment team and depot managers, you will answer queries, coordinate recruitment activity, and ensure a consistent, professional experience for both candidates and hiring managers. The team works together in the office four days each week, with an option to work from home one day each week.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary + Bonus
- Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Staff Discount
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional Reward and Recognition events
Responsibilities
- Owning recruitment administration across high‑volume depot hiring
- Using Workday to post roles, manage applications, and move candidates through each stage
- Keeping the system accurate and up-to-date at all times
- Scheduling and coordinating interviews with candidates and depot managers
- Speaking with applicants to guide them through the process and answer queries
- Supporting the recruitment team with additional projects and external partners
- Supporting depot managers with recruitment queries and process guidance
- Managing end‑to‑end recruitment for non‑critical depot roles
- Supporting at recruitment events and careers fairs when required
- Maintaining recruitment trackers and ensuring data accuracy
- Responsible for recruitment invoicing
Qualifications
- Workday experience is highly desirable – this will help you hit the ground running
- Strong administrative and organisational skills, with high attention to detail
- Experience working in a fast‑paced, high‑volume recruitment environment, desirable
- Confident managing multiple tasks and priorities at pace, with a service mindset
- Clear, professional communication with candidates and stakeholders
- A structured, process‑driven approach to work
- Discreet when handling confidential information
- Comfortable building relationships and working closely with others
- Strong problem‑solving skills, with a practical, can‑do attitude
- Confidence using Microsoft Office packages
